ISB Coaches Team Meeting Agenda

Date: Fri., Nov. 27, 2009	Time: 12:30-2:05	Place: MS Skybox
Facilitator/Timekeeper: Dennis	Recorder: Kim	Purpose: Understanding = U Informing = I Recommending = R Deciding = D

Participants: Teresa, Kelly, Kim, Jeff, Dennis, Troy

Task	Guiding Question	Background/ Process	Person / Time
Warm-up	How's the week been (IA training, coaching heavy, etc)?	1. General catch-up 2. Entering time for last week and this	All (15 min)
Coaches' Standards	How can we create coaching standards that align with our "ISB learning coach roles and responsibilities" and that are learning focused?		Kelly (45 min)
LfL	What learning is happening and how do we know?	1. Overview of LfL 2. Partner up and go out 3. Come back and analyze	Dennis (30 min)
Closure	What's on the docket for next week?	1. ERD 2. Parent Workshop	Teresa (5 min)

Parking Lot – Items on our plate for future meetings:
1. How's the week been?

IA Training on Math and Games (also Mod Lang is good) has gone well.
With varying skills, we continue to need to work on specifics
How do we get the IA's on Google Docs (there seem to be some obstacles)
Do teachers know that the IA's are getting this good training?
- Perhaps a follow up with teachers so that they know what their IA's know
- Future heads-up emails will help teachers know what their IA's will come back with
Some issues with science work and beliefs about ending "life" of plants and such - being involved in that process is upsetting for some
Leadership Team meeting presentation by Jeff was positive
- Good discussion happened including heated action
Moving toward a more Coaching Heavy model in math - no longer can teachers "avoid" the training
Successful and informative work in classrooms this week in the HS
TLC's should work with Troy to share tech tools and what's available/possible at ISB

2. Discussion on online practices on videos and photos for LFL

3. Standards for our Coaches

Need standards for many of the groups not featured in the LEAD.
All standards being re-written to be learning focused
Current LEAD has teachers, counselors, admin (needs revision)
- They focus on the teacher
Need them to be focused on learning
This is a good opportunity to look at best practice and what we want to value
Kelly shared an article
Is a "learning focus" standard for specialists focused on the teacher as the "learner" or the student as the "learner"?
- Kelly suggested an anecdotal measure from teachers on whether coaching has benefited the most
- This is very subjective and highly contingent on teachers comfort level with coaching
To measure impact of coaching on teachers, there are tests to measure content knowledge (Troy)
Need to identify, first, what the components of our coaching are
Brainstorm list of main things from article that are shifting teacher pedagogy
Let's start from ground zero and look at what we value as positive effect from coaching
Example, collaboration -> positive collaboration is not without conflict
Kelly will take Role and Responsibility document and prepare documents that will allow us to flesh out standards that hit our "Big 5"

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Nov. 27, 2009